Programa de Pós-Graduação em Neurociências,Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG),Belo Horizonte,MG,Brazil.
Centre Mémoire de Ressources et de Recherche (CMRR),University Hospital of Lille (France) & Inserm U1171,Lille,France.
Int Psychogeriatr. 2018 Dec;30(12):1861-1870. doi: 10.1017/S1041610218000443. Epub 2018 May 25.
ABSTRACTBackground:Social cognition tasks, such as identification of emotions, can contribute to the diagnosis of neuropsychiatric disorders. The wide use of Facial Emotion Recognition Test (FERT) is hampered by the absence of normative dataset and by the limited understanding of how demographic factors such as age, education, gender, and cultural background may influence the performance on the test.
We analyzed the influence of these variables in the performance in the FERT from the short version of the Social and Emotional Assessment. This task is composed by 35 pictures with 7 different emotions presented 5 times each. Cognitively healthy Brazilian participants (n = 203; 109 females and 94 males) underwent the FERT. We compared the performance of participants across gender, age, and educational subgroups. We also compared the performance of Brazilians with a group of French subjects (n = 60) matched for gender, age, and educational level.
There was no gender difference regarding the performance on total score and in each emotion subscore in the Brazilian sample. We found a significant effect of aging and schooling on the performance on the FERT, with younger and more educated subjects having higher scores. Brazilian and French participants did not differ in the FERT and its subscores. Normative data for employing the FERT in Brazilian population is presented.
Data here provided may contribute to the interpretation of the results of FERT in different cultural contexts and highlight the common bias that should be corrected in the future tasks to be developed.
摘要背景：社会认知任务，如情绪识别，可以帮助诊断神经精神障碍。面部情绪识别测试（FERT）的广泛应用受到缺乏规范数据集以及对年龄、教育、性别和文化背景等人口统计学因素如何影响测试表现的理解有限的阻碍。方法：我们分析了这些变量对社会和情感评估的简短版本中的 FERT 表现的影响。该任务由 35 张图片组成，每张图片包含 7 种不同的情绪，每种情绪呈现 5 次。认知健康的巴西参与者（n=203；109 名女性和 94 名男性）接受了 FERT。我们比较了不同性别、年龄和教育亚组参与者的表现。我们还比较了巴西人和一组性别、年龄和教育水平匹配的法国受试者（n=60）在 FERT 上的表现。结果：在巴西样本中，总分数和每个情绪子分数的表现上没有性别差异。我们发现年龄和教育对 FERT 表现有显著影响，年龄较小和受教育程度较高的受试者得分较高。巴西和法国参与者在 FERT 及其子分数上没有差异。提出了在巴西人群中使用 FERT 的规范数据。结论：此处提供的数据可能有助于在不同文化背景下解释 FERT 的结果，并突出未来任务中应纠正的常见偏见。
